Gangaram Buddhist Temple | Image Resource: youtube.com

Colombo, once known as the “garden city of the East” has many tourist attractions like the Colombo National Museum, Gangaram Buddhist Temple, Viharamah Park, Kelanya Raja Maha Vihara, etc. If you wish to visit this place from Kolkata, you can easily do so with the comfortable and convenient air travel.

The flight distance between these two places is 1965.01 km or 1221 miles; and the time taken to cover this distance is 3 hours, inclusive of the halts. Both Kolkata and Colombo lie in the same time zone which means that both places experience the same time.

Kolkata to Colombo Flights Time

The Mihin Lanka and the SriLankan Airlines are the two airlines that operate flights between Kolkata and Colombo. Each week Minhin Lanka operates 16 aircrafts and SriLankan Airlines operates 9. So, 25 weekly Kolkata to Colombo flights are available for passengers who would like to travel from Kolkata to Colombo.

The first flight to leave the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata is the Mihin Lanka airline 332 which starts at 10:15 am. This is followed by the SriLankan Airlines aircraft 2932 which starts at 10:20 am. The last flight in a week to travel from Kolkata to Colombo is a Mihin Lanka airline which leaves at 10:55 am.

Kolkata to Colombo Cheapest Flights

There are airlines that make available inexpensive tickets for the convenience of middle class passengers. The cheapest tickets for the Kolkata to Colombo flights are available if you plan to travel on Tuesdays. The lowest ticket price for the journey is Rs.7169. A range of cheap tickets for Kolkata to Colombo travel are offered by airlines including Spice Jet (Rs.8666, Rs.7200), Air India (Rs.7304), IndiGo (Rs.7744), etc.

Heavily priced tickets for this journey can be high as Rs.235721 for a connecting trip by multiple carriers that travel from Kolkata to Singapore to Colombo. Cheap rate tickets can be availed if you make your flight booking 90 days ahead of your journey. Many travel agents also offer coupon codes online using which you can get good discounts on your tickets. Further, regularly traveling with a single agent can also make you eligible to earn rewards which will lower the price of the tickets.

Book Kolkata to Colombo Flights

                     
                                 Kolkata to Colombo flights | Image Resource: search.live.com

You can reserve your tickets in Kolkata to Colombo flights in less than a minute with the online booking facility. There are various apps available for download using which you can check the availability of tickets in these flights, and make your bookings instantly. All you need to do is to enter the details including your journey’s start date, end date, and the number of tickets needed in to the software.

This will generate a list of the available flights and their ticket pricing. You can choose your flight from this list, and make your ticket payment online in a jiffy. While booking your Kolkata to Colombo tickets, remember that the IATA code of the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, is CCU and that of the Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo, is CMB